Comments on: The Water Bottle Manifesto

By: TIMOTHY

TIMOTHY — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:42:58 +0000

P.S. – I rode the 24 Hours of Moab twice – in ‘99 and 00′ – one of those waterbottle you saw was mine – a brand new Polar Bottle too!

By: TIMOTHY

TIMOTHY — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:36:48 +0000

It occured to me today, thinking about water bottles, that I have the perfect century for you! Not only do they give away good water bottles (at least they did 5 years ago -the kind that have good capacity, no plastic taste, screw on lid and the softer rubber nozzle – I use mine all the time!) they serve the best food you’ll find on a century. It’ s the Gourmet Century in Solvang, CA. I never actually rode it but I ran the midway rest stop for 2 years. They have gourmet food at each rest stop and a gourmet dinner afterwards. And it goes through the Santa Inez Valley in California. It’s pricey for a century (I think it was $85 to ride it back when I was there) but you get t-shirt, GOOD water bottle, and excellent food!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:14:20 +0000

I just went to Colonial Williamsburg last weekend. They say Huzzah there too. Just thought I’d share my mental parallel drawing :)

By: Fat Cyclist

Fat Cyclist — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:56:42 +0000

Your drink bottle post reminded me of a race I travelled to with a friend 4 or 5 years ago. Thought you’d appreciate the story.We were getting ready in the motel room on the morning of the race, and he says to me, "Is this normal?".He then displayed the content of his drink bottles.Mould. Actually, so much mould it had grown from one side of the bottle to the other. Picture a piece of pipe that’s been lying round the back yard for a few months & is now home to 25 spiders.I think I actually did one of those "mad scientist, this experiment just went horribly wrong" recoils. I asked if he had any other water bottles. No.And then…He went to the sink, rinsed the bottles in hot water, gave them a clean out with his used bath towel, and filled them with Gatorade.I still have the look of total disbelief on my face to this day.We both got thrashed in the race, by the way. The major difference was I didn’t spend the rest of the season breaking out in boils.

By: Fat Cyclist

Fat Cyclist — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:52:33 +0000

The ideal water bottle is the Zefel Magnum. It imparts no taste to what ever the beverage; holds about a litre of liguid; used to come in a quite striking all black with blue band, then came in a transparent with a bizarro bike logo and now seems to come in a less garish transparent version. It fits nicely in any waterbottle cage, the nozzles neither drip nor leak nor yet do they stick. For expecially long rides in the heat of summer three might be necessary (make sure to freeze the third.The reason that the black and blue bottle is so desirable, although no longer available (not even in France) is that it matches the famed blue and black jersey in inverse proportions and thus allows the holder of the blue black jersey to ride in a color coordinated way. The blue black jersey, as you no doubt know, is given to the rider who, as the official Tour de France puts it can ride the furthest on a slight decline with the wind at his or her back.One last point, you may be correct about the best cake in the world, but the best dessert in the world is a ginger pear tart. Not only is it tasty but its lightness gives the consumer the impression that they are eating a "light" dessert and thus one can, if one wishes, eat half without overt evidence of over indulgence. To make this tart take one stick of butter cut it into fourths lengthwise and cut this into 1/4 or 1/8 chuncks and put in the freezer for a5 min. Put one cup of flour in a food processor, dump in the the frozen butter spin with the metal blade untill the flour covers the now smallified (to use the scientific term) butter, pour in two table spoons or so of really cold water and mix, dump out and knead quickly to make a nice little ball of dough, wrap in saran wrap and stick in the fridge. take two to four pears, depending on the size of tart/pie pan. As the dough cools peel and half the pears, remove the seeds, slice the pear halves into thin strips but make sure that you do so in a way that keeps the shape of the halves. Take one table spoon ginger marmalde and one table spoon of apricot preserve (at least more of either if that is the way you want it taste) after the peeling, halving and slicing the dough should be cold. on a floored surface roll the dough out into the right size for the tart/pie pan making sure it is thin as all get out, prick the bottom cover with tin foil and stick into a 400 degree oven for about ten mins. Remove from oven, stick the marmalde and preserve into the mico and cover the bottom of the now browned pie crust, lift the pear halves into the crust and fan them slightly four or five of the halves go round the outside and one goes into the middle, sprinkle with sugar and put some butter curls over the top stick the whole mess back into the oven, still at 400, for 40 mins or so, take out cool and eat.yours in increasing former fatness,tom

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:35:25 +0000

You know those bottle caps somethimes fit on the disposable bottles of water you buy at the store. Those bottles actually last longer than some of the freebies I’ve received and they have no taste to them.

By: Fat Cyclist

Fat Cyclist — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:16:05 +0000

lofat-e – bobby julich wears a camelbak while TT’ing, which i believe gives everyone else permission to ride with a camelbak on a road bike. and really, once you hit middle age, any attempts to look cool just backfire, so you may as well be functional. that’s what i tell myself, anyway.ccm/dug/mom – i know nothing whatsoever about what works on a hike. this rant is restricted to biking, and it should be known that i always overstate everything by 40%. including the previous sentence, so you do the math.bgoab – lowfat e is correct, you can get pretty good at sensing how much you’ve got by doing a squeeze test. that said, i’ve been surprised more than once by an empty camelbak. the utter simplicity of checking your bottle by either lifting it or (if it’s clear) just looking down is hard to beat.

By: EricGu

EricGu — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:38:14 +0000

BGOABYou can easily tell how much water is left in your Camelback by giving it a squeeze while you’re riding. But they don’t really make you any points with your cycling friends. I’m somewhat Fred-ish anyway, so I don’t worry.Oh, and I do carry waterbottle(s) too, but with Accelerade instead of water.

By: agreenmouther

agreenmouther — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:13:39 +0000

Dug—no one wears a nalgene clipped to their pants. I mean seriously. If you’re hiking it goes on your backpack or some other carryable item. You probably attach your keys to your pants too, don’t you? On the plus side mom, nalgenes are amazing. Cycling is the only sport they don’t work for, which is why the fat cyclist is justified in having a manifesto about hydration while cycling.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:39:12 +0000

mom, for hiking, nalgene bottles all the way, the kind with a strap that you can carabiner to your belt.